It has taken one year of necessary, normalized virtual teaching to convince me that I could teach #PinayLit online independently. I will be posting enrollment information and dates here soon. Thank you for your interest.  https://barbarajanereyes.com/portfolio/teaching/
Here are some books I've taught in Filipinx and Pinay Literature classes, which I have been teaching for the past decade at University of San Francisco's Yuchengco Philippine Studies Program as well as San Francisco State University's Asian American Studies Department.
Here are some books I've taught in Filipinx and Pinay Literature classes, which I have been teaching for the past decade at University of San Francisco's Yuchengco Philippine Studies Program as well as San Francisco State University's Asian American Studies Department.
Invocation to Daughters by Barbara Jane Reyes Reviewed by Chloe Martinez Reyes demands that we connect the personal and the political, the powerful and the disenfranchised …
Track 1: “Gaze,”by Sweetback, feat. Amel Larrieux (1996). Squeeze your hand into a fist. Now, loosen, just a bit. They say that is the heart, heat, fiber, sugar. Cut around its core, score and inve…
#Poem in Progress: #BrownGirl Mixtape, featuring Sweetback (feat. Amel Larrieux), Mary J. Blige, How to Destroy Angels, Erykah Badu.
Dear Brown Girl, This is just to say, motherfuckers love your food! Bon Appetit says the latest craze is popcorn and Gummi Bears® in your halo-halo, and you’re looking at this sideways as others no…
Feminist experimental poetry in the tradition of Audre Lorde and Theresa Kyung Cha from a prominent Filipina American poet.
The fifth collection from Oakland poet Barbara Jane Reyes, in the tradition of Audre Lorde and Theresa Hak Kyung Cha, Invocation to Daughters is a book of prayers, psalms, and odes for Filipina girls and women trying to survive and make sense of their own situations. Writing in an English inflected with Tagalog and Spanish, Reyes unleashes this colonized tongue against sexualized and racialized violence towards Pinay women. With its meditations on the relationship between fathers and daughters and impassioned pleas on behalf of victims of brutality, Invocation to Daughters is a lyrical feminist broadside written from a place of shared humanity.
"Against violence against women, Barbara Jane Reyes rips and runs, jumping off Audre Lorde's 'the master's tools will never dismantle the master's house,' Invocation to Daughters recombines registers––prayers, pleas and elegy––braiding a trilingual triple-threat, a 3-pronged poetics that enjambs and reconfigures the formal with the street, utterance with erasure, the prose sentence with the liminal. Invocation to Daughters reminds me of the 70's in the East Bay, when Jessica Hagedorn met Ntozake Shange and ignited a green flash seen from horizon to horizon. Barbara Jane Reyes is one of the Bay Area's incendiary voices."––Sesshu Foster
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